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Mark Millar–the comics writer who co-created Kick-Ass and Wanted as comics before they turned into movies, and has lately been working on a cluster of comics at various publishers under the loose umbrella of “Millarworld”–was the central figure of Kapow Comic Con, held this past weekend in London. Millar announced four new comics …

Each installment of Panel of the Week I pull some of the best scenes from last week’s comics (released on 10/20) and put them up for all to see and make snarky comments about. Come back tomorrow to see the featured pull list just in time to hit your Local Comic Shop for lunch.

Here it is, my top five pull list on its new day. I reshuffled some of my posts and now I’m going to bump the pull list to Wednesdays where it might do some more good for those getting ready to pull the trigger on some $2.99 gems. See you at the racks.

Batman and Robin #15
This is the final chapter in the “Batman Must Die” story …

A reminder to all the faithful, to all the penitent: Wednesday is two days away. Prepare yourselves. To that end here is the list of new comics hitting shelves near you. For the sake of readability this list does not contain alternate covers, magazines, toys, statues, posters or other merchandise. Just comics.

Hollywood has killed the superhero movie, and there’ll only be another couple of movies before the genre dies entirely – at least temporarily. Those aren’t my thoughts, but those of X-Men: First Class director Matthew Vaughn, who didn’t shy away from telling the LA Times’ Hero Complex blog that he’s making his contribution to the genre …

With yesterday’s release of Kick-Ass on DVD and Blu-ray, we called on Chris Brown, president and CEO of customized digital media company Metabeam, to walk us through the Blu-ray disc dual-screen experience, Metamenu – controllable by your iPhone or Android-platform smartphone. Download the free Metamenu app and your phone will …

While chatting with Kick-Ass director Matthew Vaughn, we learned that the much speculated “on again, off again” sequel plans are almost certainly a go. “We have lots of amazing ideas for a sequel,” Vaughn told us, “but nothing confirmed yet. We don’t have a shoot date or a …

There’s been a lot of public debate about the box office performance of Kick-Ass last weekend. In the end, the movie barely squeaked out a weekend victory over How to Train Your Dragon, when all the receipts were finally tallied Monday. But still, the buzz around the entertainment world has been that the film underperformed. I’m not …